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If you're just looking for something to fill the void Flappy Bird has left in your heart, there are already plenty of options out there. Here's a small sampling, in order of their similarity to Flappy Bird:

Ironpants

Ironpants is currently the heir apparent to Flappy Bird, taking over as the No. 1 game in the list of free apps in the Apple App Store. (It's fourth for Android.) Rather than a bird, you are a superhero with a heavy costume, and rather than pipes you must avoid wooden boxes. If anything, it may be a little harder, since the towers are more spaced out - meaning you really can't plan your flight path. But it has the same infinite scrolling layout and provides the same hair-ripping frustration. So you can still feel, with each successive high score, that you've never really accomplished a thing. Free, for iOS and Android.

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Copter Classic

When Flappy Bird started to gain popularity, plenty of people pointed out that the elements of its gameplay are similar to classic helicopter games. There are a lot of free versions of copter games, on both Apple's App Store and Google Play, with the same basic layout. As you may expect, in these games you're a helicopter, and you're trying to avoid obstacles that will turn your aircraft into a smoking mess. Players tend to be scored on distance, rather than number of obstacles avoided, but these games are just as unforgiving and difficult. There are a variety of these games in both app stores, but see Copter Classic by Classic Games for iOS or Copter Classic by Team 5 Soft for Android for prototypical examples.

Fly Birdie

Fly Birdie also shares many of the elements of Flappy Bird, namely that players control a bird that has to avoid pipes. (Where are all these anti-avian pipes coming from, anyway?) Unlike Flappy Bird, this game is pretty easy. The pipes are really spaced out, so there's really no challenge in clearing them. And there's no sudden-death element - you can crash your bird up to three times before dying. Free, for iOS.

Fly the bird between the pipes - it seems so simple, but Flappy Bird's difficulty has generated a storm of internet hate.

Piou Piou v Cactus

The developer of Piou Piou actually accused Nguyen of ripping off his game, noting the similarity between the bird protagonists. But the games actually have some notable differences, aside from the fact that you're flying around cacti rather than pipes in this game. Piou Piou is also more forgiving - you can run into really as many of the spiky obstacles as you want as long as you don't get trapped and pushed off the edge of the ever-accelerating screen. You also don't drop immediately if you stop tapping. Free, for Android.

Shuriken Block

This game is, admittedly, not at all like Flappy Bird except in one critical way: It's also developed by Nguyen. It therefore has the same charming 8-bit styling of Flappy Bird, though admittedly without being quite so difficult. The purpose of Shuriken Block is, well, to block shuriken. More specifically, you have to keep the throwing stars from planting themselves in the heads of five men who are inexplicably unwilling to move away from a near-constant hail of sharpened metal falling from the sky. Players tap to deflect the shuriken, which increase in number as the game goes on. It's a pretty amusing little time-waster, though some users complain that it has the tendency to crash. Free, for iOS.